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Comment by MingtheMerciless

This does not mean you have to mine 100,000 mining nodes to get this achievement. It means you have to collect 100,000 ore and rocks from mining nodes.

So if you mined an ore deposit and got 10 ore from it, the progress meter for the achievement would go up 10 more points.

Comment by MrRabies

Potentially a reference to the anime Mighty Space Miners. Not very likely, but hey, you never know! :D

Comment by moopert

For more clarification. Ores and stones count. Elemental items and gems do not. Motes, crystallized elements, and volatiles will not increase this total. Best place to do this is old world since you can get up to 8 stones at a time in a single node.

Comment by Grenmoor66

I did laps around Swamp of Sorrows for Rich/Small Throrium deposits.....seems to have fast respawns, plus there is a cave in the SE corner that have 4-5 deposits inside. Good spot.

Reasoning....smaller zone than Winterspring or Silithus...plus once you get to the area north of Marshtide Watch you head South to the cave (assuming you're going clockwise) ....not many mobs if you're playing a non-85 toon.

Comment by satarell

Silithus seems to be the best place, just fly around the outside. In 2 days rocks totals have gone up from 500 to 4800, not to many mob bother you so it progresses really fast. Plus auctioning all those minerals isn't to bad on the old wallet :)

Comment by Kweesro

Un'goro crater isn't a bad area either. Fly around the outer ring and mine thorium deposits.

Comment by Auryan

Fun fact: as of this date opening "Small Bag of Goods" and "Big Bag of Zandalari Supplies" that contain ore will count toward this achievement. I had just finished making a round of killing Warbringers, Scouts and rares and was opening bags when the acheivement triggered.

Comment by Mileron

My guild had not acquired this particular achievement as of the start of WoD.

We started the expansion with around 57K on the counter.

With the advent of the garrison, this became a much easier achievement (as did the Bushels and Bushels for herbalism).

Not only does the mine provide around 8/14/18 (L1/2/3) mining nodes from which to get ore and stones, but starting at L2 (ostensibly with an assigned follower, however as of 1/5/15 it's still bugged in that carts spawn without a follower assigned) two to five mine carts spawn which hold ore. Last, goren mobs have a small chance to spawn when mining.

Each of these three methods (nodes, carts, goren looting) PLUS retrieving the work orders from your mine (which are doubled based on the level of the follower assigned as of Mine level 2) all count towards this achievement.

Primal spirits, ore nuggets, and Apexis crystals do NOT seem to count for this achievement.

The level 1 mine results in an average of 33 ore/stone.The level 2 mine results in an average of 63 ore/stone (if you get lucky with mine carts.)The level 3 mine results in an average of 125 ore/stone (if you get lucky with mine carts.)Goren drop 7-12 ore but are rare-ish spawns.One standard (not boosted by follower) Mine work order results in 5 ore.

With me running 6-8 characters with a L1 mine and 1-4 characters with L2/L3 mines, plus five miners (five of my own are miners, I mean, and yes I do mine "out in the world") plus a guildmate with 1 level 3 and 1 level 1 mine, we're sitting just shy of 99k as of the morning of 1/5/15.